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space1 month ago•54 min saved

LTE440: China's lunar clock aims to sync Moon time with relativity

Chinese researchers unveiled LTE440, a lunar time ephemeris that uses Lunar Coordinate Time and relativistic corrections to convert Earth time to Moon time with long-term accuracy (about 1,000 years). Built on Kopeikin’s TCL framework, it aims to coordinate lunar time for navigation and communication during future Moon missions and could become an international benchmark alongside NASA and ESA efforts to standardize lunar clocks, helping prevent time-zone chaos in space.

via Live Science|

#lte440 #lunar-clock #lunar-time

space-and-geopolitics9 months ago•3 min saved

US's Lunar Time Claim: A New Geopolitical Shift

The US has established Lunar Coordinated Time (LTC), a new lunar time standard, to improve navigation, communication, and international cooperation in lunar missions, asserting US leadership in space exploration and geopolitics.

via Glass Almanac|

#international-cooperation #lunar-time #space-and-geopolitics

science-and-technology2 years ago•8 min saved

The Lunar Clock: Timekeeping on the Moon

Space organizations around the world have agreed to implement a proper lunar time zone, an internationally accepted common lunar reference time that all future missions can use to communicate and navigate with ease. Dr. Kenneth L. Franklin, a well-known American astronomer, developed a special formula for telling time on the moon in 1970, and using his calculations, a then well-known watch company, Helbros, actually developed a wristwatch that could provide at a glance the precise time on the moon. The watch was based on the lunar synodic month or lunation, and the face of the watch actually gave the time in lunours, centilunours, and millilunours.

via Space.com|

#helbros #kenneth-franklin #lunar-time